Monday, December 28, 2015

Still More 40K (and Forbidden Stars!)

Despite being so close to
finishing up the Jungle Fighter Guardsmen, I got working on these over the last
week. I spent three days at my folks place over the holidaze “watching” the
first six episodes of Star Wars before going to see Force Awakens on Sunday
evening – and I took these along to work on while watching said movies. I took
these as they required taking along less paints and were a little more
straightforward to paint…

Almost all of these guardsmen I
picked up used off ebay… some had gobs of paint (or glue) on them already…
others were assembled a bit… funny… (some of which I was able to break apart
and glue back together is such a way that hands met up with arms, etc… others…
not-so-much…)

We also FINALLY got in a game of
Forbidden
Stars – a game from Fantasy
Flight Games set in the grim dark universe of Warhammer 40,000. I
played the Imperium, The Boy played the Orks, The Girl played the Eldar and
Amanda played the forces of Chaos.

It took a LONG damned time to
set up and sort out the rules… It took even LONGER to play… It was really fun
though! There’s a lot going on in this game – I feel like it will take a few
played to figure out the various strategies… but at 4+ hours to play… I’m not
sure I’m going to get in all that many games!?

… and then there’s this guy… He’s not for 40K. And totally
not form Games Workshop. I think he came from Crooked
Dice. I have no idea who he’s supposed to be, but how could I pass up
a dude in a kilt with an SLR!?

Coming soon on Tim’s Miniature Wargaming Blog:

I did get in a game of Frostgrave
on Sunday – hopefully I’ll get a game report of that up sometime this week.

Also we finished Volume Three of Story of the World, so I
have another Gaming Our Way Through History post in the works.

You can probably expect the usual look back at the past year
and plans for next year posts in the next week or so.

And I have a pile of other stuff on the workbench that just
needs a bit of finishing up – Jungle Fighters, etc.